Sleep Infographic: What If You Don't Sleep Enough?

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How many times have you told yourself "... it's just sleep." but what happens to your health when you're not sleeping enough?

This infographic designed by FFunction for Zeo, a company that makes an electronic "sleep coach," is less of a real data visualization than a set of illustrated facts but those facts are pretty impressive.

For example, we seem pretty tired all the time and only 7% of people get the necessary eight hours of sleep at night but the effects of this might be more than inconvenient. They may be disasterous.

Getting less sleep is now associated with a 200% rise in cancer, a 100% rise in heart disease, and a 20% rise in the likelihood you'll be dead in 20 years.

UnfortunatelY, not only will you be less healthy, you'll also be fatter. People who sleep an hour more each day lose 14.3 pounds per year and 1 in 3 women find themselves too sleepy for sex!

Studies have shown that sleeping too little effectively puts the body on "high alert," creating increased stress hormones and chemicals associated with inflammation.

New Drug Research shows cancer stem cells not invulnerable

A promising new cancer drug targets and kills the pernicious tumour cells responsible for metastasis and relapse. It is far too early to test the drug, called salinomycin, in humans, but the findings offer hope that the so-called cancer stem cells will eventually prove vulnerable to treatment.

"It's been thought that these cells are responsible both for metastasis and for recurrence following anti-cancer therapy," says Piyush Gupta, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the new study. "There's been a lot of evidence to suggest that cancer stem cells are resistant to a variety of cell-death-inducing agents."

Gupta's team found that salinomycin kills breast-cancer stem cells at least 100 times more effectively than another popular anti-cancer drug. And mice implanted with human breast-cancer cells and later treated with salinomycin showed fewer signs of metastases than mice given a standard cancer therapy. Click here for More....